Critical frameworks shape how we perceive and interpret cultural production. This section features conversations that challenge conventional boundaries between disciplines, and prioritize what complicates dominant narratives, challenging the frameworks that govern scholarly and critical discourse alike to reveal the intellectual networks that connect seemingly dissimilar cultural elements.
Spring 2026
Uncertainty as a Condition of Intelligence — Bogna Konior
In this conversation we challenge the assumption that intelligence reveals itself through language, proposing instead a model of concealment.
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Summer 2026
How Unlike Us — Philip Ball
In this conversation we revisit "Machine Minds" four years on, examining why the apparent similarities between AI systems and human cognition are products of design rather than convergence, and what is lost when we forget the difference.